Margherita Cagol

Margherita Cagol (1945-5 June 1975) was a leader of the communist Red Brigades of Italy and the wife of Renato Curcio. She was killed in a shootout with police in 1975.

Biography
Margherita Cagol was born in Sardagna, Trentino, Italy in 1945, the daughter of a prosperous merchant father and a pharmacist mother. She became involved with student movements at the University of Trento during the 1960s and befriended Renato Curcio, and they later married and moved to Milan. In 1970, they co-founded the Red Brigades, and they engaged in a series of bombings and kidnappings of prominent figures from 1972 to 1975. On 4 June 1975, she assisted in the kidnapping of the industrialist Vallarino Gancia, holding him in the Acqui Terme hills in Piedmont. The Carabinieri surrounded the farmhouse where Cagol and another guard were keeping Gancia, having investigated several other farmhouses in the area. The communists fought against the police, with two policemen being killed before Cagol was shot dead.